Courage Quotes
The quotes worth a second look here are the quiet ones. In Dryden’s Amphitryon (1690) a character says he is “whistling to keep myself from being afraid”, which is still a fair description of how most courage works. Samuel Johnson, according to Boswell (1791), said courage is so necessary to virtue that it is respected even when it goes along with vice. Nassim Taleb, in The Bed of Procrustes (2010), has it the other way round from the usual advice: mental clarity is the child of courage, not the reverse. The psychologist Rollo May is the most-quoted modern writer here.
Two of the page’s better-known quotes are flagged as misattributed: the Churchill line about the courage to continue, which has no traceable source (see Success), and a passage on the courage of our questions that is credited to Carl Sagan.
Most quoted on courage:
Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
Man was formed for society and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.
Vulnerability is not weakness; it's our greatest measure of courage.
I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I’m a messenger.
It takes enormous trust and courage to allow yourself to remember.